ASIAN TSUNAMIS

In a sure sign that finally journalists are running out of things to write about the Tsunami disaster, the back page of the main section of the SCMP is devoted to a "what if" scenario of a major earthquake near the Philippines generating a tsunami, and it's possible effects on Hong Kong.

It points out that there are no deep-seap pressure sensors or warning systems in the South China Sea and that Hong Kong's geography means the tsunami would gain height and destructive power as it came into Hong Kong and the harbour. There are two professors of something or other talking in earnest tones about how Sha Tin would be devestated (might be the best thing that ever happened to Sha Tin if you ask me but there you go) and the 1st and 2nd floor of buildings on HK island and Kowloon waterfronts would be inundated.

All quite chilling, if highly improbable.

And to be frank I'm not really that bothered because I work on the 48th floor of a building nowhere near the waterfront and live on The Peak.

So nahnahnahnah